The Urban Model in Disgrace

Instapundit editorializes concerning the urban unrest ongoing.

A message is being received — even by those loudly posturing as woke at the moment — to the effect that you and your properties aren’t safe in big blue cities, and maybe even in medium-sized ones. All the talk about the reurbanization of America just went up, literally, in smoke. Thanks to the pandemic, cities were already looking like centers of disease. Now they’re looking like centers of violence, too. As I said earier, three decades of image rehabilitation for big urban centers has been undone in just a few weeks.

The reasons for medium-to-large cities’ very existence diminish with each passing year, and each technological development. Increasingly they become inexpensive places to corral the unfortunate individuals for whom no meaningful role can be found in modern society, a trend already well-established.